DailyDirt: Processors Without Borders...?

from the urls-we-dig-up dept

Now that everyone is a bit more concerned about software backdoors that the NSA might have installed everywhere, a nationalistic push towards "home-grown" hardware could pick up a little among various countries around the world. Designing custom processors and software from scratch isn't easy or cheap, but it avoids some of the angles of attack for a security break-in (though it doesn't prevent any of the social engineering tactics). Here are just a few links on processor designs that aren't coming from Intel or AMD.